Adulthood Quote by Juan Gabriel Download Open image “Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.” — Juan Gabriel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adulthood Illusion Illusion of control Inspirational Love Pernicious Power
“Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over our own… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing. — J W Jepson Copy Share Image
“Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it, — Sarah Beeny Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the strangest thing about this illusion of control is not that it happens but that it seems to confer many of the psychological… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Adulthood has its own way of helping you realize who is important in your life. — Crystal Yang Copy Share Image
I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
“Adolescents who never learn to control their consciousness grow up to be adults without a “discipline.” They lack the complex skills that will help… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Learning self-control is important, but it’s equally important to grow up in an environment where adults are consistently present and trustworthy.” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“very last section of the brain to mature, during the teenage years and early twenties, is the prefrontal cortex, which controls judgment, impulse control,… — Sarah Ockwell-Smith Copy Share Image
The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow… — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
I think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or… — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
Since I was sent to an orphanage, and I saw very little of my mother, I can counsel mothers that you shouldn't abandon your… — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
I think I am an artist. I think I am Juan Gabriel, who has given so much with my songs. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Two things suck about becoming an adult male - paying taxes and getting a finger in your butt. — Guy Code Copy Share Image
You can only pretend for so long before reality hits and you realize he/she is not who you thought or what you truly want. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“English: "Being an adult doesn't mean killing the child we once were; it means being able to protect him." Česky: „Být dospělým neznamená zabít… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
“I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually, they're just… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need. — Chris Hogan Copy Share Image
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
